fml flatworms

[asylumdown]

Is cooking the rocks really required? I thought AEFW always laid their eggs on the skeleton of the coral they were munching on, I didn't think they would go out in to the rock work to lay eggs? Baby AEFW would need to be very close to a food source when they hatched, so laying eggs out in a desert (relative to something as small as a newly hatched flatworm) seems like a behaviour evolution would have nipped in the bud pretty early on.

I suppose it's better safe than sorry, but separating your corals from their life-support system for that long seems like a situation where the cure can be worse than the disease.

You definitely need to inspect the corals you do have very carefully though, all that work will be for naught if you missed a teeny tiny cluster of eggs wedged in the crook of a branch. Even half of a mm of exposed skeleton is enough for them to lay eggs on.

[Craigdillman]

Yea not sure cooking is required if you can QT all the corals and just leave the Main fallow of Acros for a bit they should die out. Feel for you man that really sucks

[Craigdillman]

Plus if you take all the rocks out you may run into a problem if you still have fish and a bio load

[Spyd]

With such a small tank, I would just put the sps back in and dip them once a week. Once u see no signs of flatworms, you are good to go. You can also use KZ flatworm Stop. It doesnt kill the flatworms but coats your sps so that the flatworms dont eat them. Dose it daily for 3 months.

[Proteus]

Thanks peeps for the help.
I'm.not.sure about eggs on rockwork I've read yes and no. I dont see why they wouldn't as I see eggs on frag plugs
Either way I set up a qt. The eggs hatch in 21 days and mature flatworms die in 5 without food so I'm looking at a month.

Question though.
I've cut clean frags from what was salvageable am I ok to put these on frag plugs.
Also.
Should I treat the qt tank or remove the corals and dip weekly

[Proteus]

Also did pick up flatworm stop. But that's a little late now lol